Section 42 says: This section shall take effect on January 1. 1909. That is intended to give the owners of immigrant ships time to make the necessary chalges in the spaces between decks and the air spaces which would be available for each person carried. The proviso to section 43 is as follows : That this act shall not be construed to repeal. alter. or amend existing laws relating to the ilnmigration or exclusion of Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent. nor to repeal. alter. or amend section 6). chapter 453. third session Fiftyeighth Congress. approved February 6 . .19o5. or prior to January 1. 1!)Oi. section 1 of the act approved August 2. 1882. entitled "An act to regulate the carriage of passengers by sea." In other words. this provision continues it force existing law until 1909. and then this provision lit section 43 will go into effect in 1909. and yet the Senator from Massachusetts tells us that the entire statute of navigation as to the regulation of ships was under tile jurisdiction of the conferees. I am astonishedno.
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